Message a Chatbot

The chat.smarterbot.ai API enables you to generate an AI response based on the user’s question by sending a POST request to the /chat/Chat/ClientAsk endpoint.

Endpoint​ #

Request URL: https://chat.smarterbot.ai/chat/Chat/ClientAsk

Method: POST

Request Headers​ #

The API request must include the following headers:

• Authorization: <Your-Secret-Key> – string, required – The secret key for authenticating the API request
• Content-Type: application/json – string, required – The content type of the request payload (must be application/json)

Request Body​ #

The request body should contain the following parameters:

{
  // integer, required - The session ID obtained from the Create Chat Session API
  "sessionID": 123,
  // string, required - The question or message from the user
  "content": "hello"
}

• sessionID – integer, required – The session ID obtained from the Create Chat Session API
• content – string, required – The question or message from the user

Example Request​ #

JavaScript (Fetch API) #

const res = await fetch('https://chat.smarterbot.ai/chat/Chat/ClientAsk', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
  "Authorization": "<Your-Secret-Key>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
},
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "sessionID": 123,
  "content": "hello"
})
});

const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

Python (Requests Library) #

import requests
import json

url = 'https://chat.smarterbot.ai/chat/Chat/ClientAsk'
headers = {
    "Authorization": "<Your-Secret-Key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}
data = {
  "sessionID": 123,
  "content": "hello"
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data)
data = response.json()
print(data)

cURL #

curl 'https://chat.smarterbot.ai/chat/Chat/ClientAsk' \
  -X POST \
  -H 'Authorization: <Your-Secret-Key>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"sessionID":123,"content":"hello"}'

HTTP Request #

POST /chat/Chat/ClientAsk HTTP/1.1
Host: chat.smarterbot.ai
Authorization: <Your-Secret-Key>
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "sessionID": 123,
  "content": "hello"
}

Response​ #

The API response will be a JSON object with the following structure:

{
  "Data": {
    "messageid": 375561,
    "content": "I'm here to help you with appointments and reservations. If you have any questions related to that, feel free to ask!",
    "totalToken": 4337
  },
  // string - API version
  "Version": "1.0.0",
  // boolean - Operation success status
  "Success": true,
  // integer - HTTP status code
  "Code": 200,
  // string - Error message if any
  "Message": ""
}

Error Handling​ #

If the request fails, you should: 1. Check the HTTP status code for network-level errors 2. Examine the `Code` and `Message` fields in the response for business-level errors 3. The `Message` field will contain detailed error information